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To the circle of the plebeian nobility new -gentes- doubtless were from time to time added; but the old plebian houses, such as the Licinii, Fulvii, Atilii, Domitii, Marcii, Junii, predominate very decidedly in the Fasti throughout three centuries. I. V. The Senate III. IX. Death of Scipio III. X. Their Lax and Unsuccessful Management of the War f. III. VI. In Italy III. VI. Conquest of Sicily
On the surface it would appear that he is a reasonably industrious tradesman in Tottenham Court Road, who is anxious that there should be no visible connection between a plebian employment and so aristocratic a residence as that in Park Lane. At this point Spenser Hale gave expression to one of those rare flashes of reason which are always an astonishment to his friends.
The pilum was considered by the ancients as quite a Roman invention. I. XIII. Landed Proprietors II. III. Combination of the Plebian Aristocracy and the Farmers against the Nobility I. XIII. System of Joint Cultivation I. XIII. Inland Commerce of the Italians I. XIII. Commerce in Latium Passive, in Etruria Active I. XIII. Etrusco-Attic, and Latino-Sicilian Commerce
II. III. Complete Opening Up of Magistracies and Priesthoods II. III. Combination of The Plebian Aristocracy and The Farmers against The Nobility III. XIII. Religious Economy IV. X. Punishments Inflicted on Particular Communities 34. e. g. IV. IV. Dissatisfaction in the Capital, IV. V. Warfare of Prosecutions IV. II. Vote by Ballot IV. III. Modifications of the Penal Law II. II. Intercession
This was a plebian assembly, and had very insignificant powers, chiefly relating to the local affairs of the tribes. But when these tribes began to be real representatives of the people, with the increase of the plebeian classes, matters affecting the whole state were brought before them by the tribunes.
Indeed, thought Medora, he made other young men in nearby boxes young men of "means" and "position" look almost plebian. "He is charming," she said to herself, over and over again. What about him "took" her? Was it his slenderness, his grace? Was it his youthfulness, intact to this moment and promising an extension of agreeable possibilities into an entertaining future?
Now inasmuch as I wist not yet to what end he sought to beguile me by these questions, I confirmed his words with all prudence; and then he glanced again at the monk, and whispered hastily in my ear, and so low that I scarce might hear him: "That fellow is privily drinking up all my old Cyprus wine and Malvoisie. And the other priests, the Plebian here do you know their worldly and base souls?
At present, I believe that a building of that class would be called a "mill." This word, however, exists in Jack-a-dandy a very old English word. But what does that mean? Precisely, however, the same gesture, plebian as it was, by which the English commandant at Heligoland replied to the Danes when civilly inviting him to surrender.
The Scotch Judge, Duncan Forbes, in his published letters of that period, wrote that the use of tea had become so excessive, that . . . So that we may trace our ultra-fashionable 5 o'clock tea of 1900 back to its plebian origin among plain working people, to the working woman, to the washerwoman of 150 years ago.
They were possessed to do the things their more well conducted sisters never thought of doing. The cow had a strain of distinctly plebian blood which, transmitted to her calf, probably accounted for their eccentricities.
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